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Cold War Shivers - novels and accounts
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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the master - you have to start here. He has turned the spy novel into high literature
The Honourable SchoolboyThe Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
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intricate, thought-provoking and fascinating
Smiley's PeopleSmiley's People by John Le Carre
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it was no accident that Markus Wolf (boss of East German secret service) would read Le Carre to find out what his opposite numbers were thinking
A Perfect SpyA Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
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(semi?) autobiographical - the personal crises as a result of a life of deceit, stunningly told
Absolute FriendsAbsolute Friends by John Le Carre
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survivors of the cold war finding life after it harder to navigate & survive
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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He saw it all in 1948 - it surely fed the paranoia of the age
The SuccessorThe Successor by Ismail Kadare
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the machinations of the most closed communist country of all - Albania
The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold WarThe Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War by Peter Hennessy
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so what did the British government plan if the worst came to the worst - Hennessy has been digging
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Penguin Press History)The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Penguin Press History) by Christopher M. Andrew
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this really did happen!
Cambridge Spies : Complete BBC Series [2003]Cambridge Spies : Complete BBC Series [2003]
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they had such idealism and in a perverted sort of way, integrity - but look what it was for and where it got them. Powerful drama